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Definition of Educator
1. Noun. Someone who educates young people.
Specialized synonyms: Academic, Academician, Faculty Member, Lector, Lecturer, Reader, Head, Head Teacher, Principal, School Principal, Schoolmaster, Instructor, Teacher
Generic synonyms: Professional, Professional Person
Specialized synonyms: Bethune, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Braille, Louis Braille, Carnegie, Dale Carnegie, Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky, John Amos Comenius, Dewey, John Dewey, Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, Froebel, Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Hopkins, Mark Hopkins, Hutchins, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Laney, Lucy Craft Laney, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Lowell, Horace Mann, Mann, Mcguffey, William Holmes Mcguffey, Maria Montesorri, Montessori, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Moynihan, James Naismith, Naismith, Carl Orff, Orff, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Peabody, Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Anne Sullivan, Sullivan, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington, Washington, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White, White, Emma Hart Willard, Willard, John Witherspoon, Witherspoon
Derivative terms: Educate
Definition of Educator
1. n. One who educates; a teacher.
Definition of Educator
1. Noun. A person distinguished for his/her educational work ¹
2. Noun. A person who, or a thing which, educates ¹
3. Noun. A teacher ¹
4. Noun. A person that accepts responsibility for the educating process and educates by supporting and assisting an educand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Educator
1. one that educates [n -S] - See also: educates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Educator
Literary usage of Educator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The educator's part in the enterprise of education is to furnish the ... In last
analysis, all that the educator can do is modify stimuli so that response ..."
2. The Massachusetts Teacher (1854)
"[An Extract from a Lecture upon the Practical educator, delivered before the
Dukes County Educational Association, by Rev. ..."
3. A Dictionary of American Authors by Oscar Fay Adams (1897)
"A Methodist clergyman and educator m Nashville. Handbook of. ... A Massachusetts
educator, principal of the Normal School at Bridge- water, 1840-03. ..."
4. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1858)
"THE educator draws out latent powers.—The teacher puts in a given task. The educator
considers, the worse the material, the greater skill in work- Ing it. ..."
5. Check List of Collections of Personal Papers in Historical Societies by Library of Congress Manuscript Division (1918)
"Day, George E., educator and author, 1832-1837. Day, Jeremiah, educator ...
Eliot, Charles William, educator, 1870- 1892. Ellery, William, statesman ..."
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